The Place refers to the main cluster of houses west of the River. Since the 1970s, there has been considerable residential development in the Easter Cove (not shown). People living in the Easter Cove will say they are going over to the Place when...

In the early-1800s, Nix Power married one of Thomas Nashs daughters and the Powers settled on the Hill above the Gut and Square. In the mid-1850s, another family of Powers arrived and settled on the Hill. Patrick Mooney (b. 1816) the first Mooney...

On the east side of the wide river mouth, the Easter Cove has at times been quite removed from the Place. In the early years, there were a fair number of houses in the Easter Cove. However in 1962, rafting ice damaged the series of wooden bridges...

Transcript: What I would like is to see all single family residences in 20 years, and to have some of the existing fishing premises restored and maintained for public access... and what I would hate to see is all the existing houses removed, and...

As the number of Nashs increased, homesteads were built on the Square just above the Gut. Maurice (b. 1909) was the son of Thomas Nash (b. 1859) who first built on the Square. This Thomas Nash was the grandson of the first settler Thomas Nash.

"General introduction; 1959 received job offer with Western Union; Lived on Cable Avenue (#4) 1962; 1966 when office closed, moved out; Bought #9 and lived there for 10 years; Sold in 1981; Description of house; Information about coal furnace; Coal...

Bishop of Bay Roberts; John Bishop’s mill; Story about Uncle drinking rum with friends; Trees on Cable Ave.; Wartime on Cable Ave.; Cable Ave. as a unique place; Manager named Cameron; Sliding on the Ave.; Trading books with his daughter; Chester...

Born in St. John’s 1941; Grew up in Bay Roberts, Cable Ave.; Grandfather worked in Heart’s Content; Father worked with Western Union; Mother’s Father occupied first house built by W.U. in Bay Roberts; Grandfather--Arthur George; Father...